Hub was un-featured days ago and now I can't edit it to correct it

One of my Hubs was un-featured after four years of being featured. Reason: poor content?!

OK, but when I tried to edit it, it says: Sorry, you can not edit your hub while an editor is working on it.

This happened a few days ago and I still can't edit it!

The saddest part is that this is my most visited Hub and it gets Google, Yahoo! and Bing traffic and it was getting it for the past four years now.

But the new un-featured thing made the Hub go "NOINDEX", which means that at the next visit from Google, Bing and Yahoo! it will be de-indexed and I will lose all the traffic.

I wrote to support but got no answer yet. Time is of the essence here. I want to add to the content, change a few things, add some pictures etc. but I can't because of this "Editor is working on it" error.

I just wrote another reply below... My hub is now featured again and I got the email yesterday from the HubPro editor that she will start editing my hubs.

Everything is under control now. Looks like you just have to wait a few days. It's not too pleasant since Google might deindex your hub because of the "Noindex" meta tag on unfeatured hubs but it didn't happen.

It sounds like you have qualified for HubPro and that one of our professional Editors is helping you fix up your Hub.

If you are indeed receiving our free editing service right now, you should have received 2 emails about it. One letting you know that you qualify for the service, and another letting you know when your Editor was about to begin working on your Hub. In the second email, you will find contact info for your Editor if you'd like to get in touch with her while she's working.

It sounds like his Hub was unFeatured for quality. It doesn't happen often, or to every Hub, but occasionally Hubs are re-rated, and if they receive a very low score, it is possible to have that Hub spontaneously unFeatured for quality issues.

I checked the emails. I got the HubPro message (that I've been selected) - I even got it twice. I never got the message from the editor that she was beginning the editing.

All I got was a "heads-up" email that my hub was unpublished due to spammy or non-quality content. When I checked it, I saw it was changed (obviously by the HubPro editor). The changes were relatively minute, though, she only repositioned the video that was previously floating "right" and I think she deleted one of the pictures but I'm not sure.

Then the next day I got another email that said "Your Hub has been cleared for publication, and published." That's all I got. No Editor name or contact.

But the problem is that now it's not featured and I still can't edit it due to the "Sorry, editor is working on it" message.

Is there anything some technician can do? I'd really like to edit it and get it featured again. I saw that Bing already crawled (but didn't de-index it yet, thankfully). Google is sure to follow. I don't know why but I'm very nervous about this. I'm already working on another hub on the same topic but I'd really like it if I didn't lose the first one. Seems like a lot of work for nothing in the end.

I just realized that perhaps I'm panicking too much and that the editor is searching for more info on the topic to add to the hub. Is that possible?

Just to be clear, Hubs becoming unfeatured and the HubPro editing service are unrelated. HubPro does not cause Hubs to be unpublished or unfeatured. Some of the Hubs in the HubPro queue may have quality issues or violations that cause the Hub to lose Featured status, but the program itself does not cause Hubs to become unfeatured.

Rather, a Hub that has received professional editing is very unlikely to lose Featured status for quality issues or rule violations since our Editors are trained to fix potential problems.

OK, thank you. I indeed got the mail about HubPro. I did get an email saying my Hub was published again but then it was unfeatured. Some changes were made but I still can't edit it to correct/add content. I wanted to add a poll, a few images and some more cool content (admittedly this Hub is four years old but I didn't want to touch it because of the traffic it was receiving). I don't know if the Hub gets unpublished when you edit it or does the previous version stay online until an editor checks it for quality.

Anyway, thank you very much for the answers, I'll try contacting the editor if I find the email

Of course the other option is to do a "save page as a web archive" and then remove your content and place it elsewhere.

I've had a hub unfeatured for quality which had been very successful in the past. Of course since I've opted out of HubPro - because there is absolutely no way I would let anybody edit my hubs unless I'd screened them and passed them fit for purpose first (especially given the feedback from others about the way it works!) - I won't be getting the email about HubPro!

Thing is I've edited my hub, and it has absolutely no messages for me - except some stylistic ones which I understand are optional as to whether we tackle them or not.

So why does it remain "unfeatured"? So far as I'm concerned it's fixed.

One more week and if it's still in the same state then it will out of here, closely followed by a lot of other similar ones.

I thought it was only Squidoo which went in for guessing games - and I was impressed with the message system used by HubPages. However I'm not at all impressed by the glitches.

Which one is it? If you tell us the title, AND if you have your profile set to show unFeatured Hubs, we can have a look and perhaps one of us can solve the mystery.

Not sure what you mean by "one more week" - do you mean you've submitted it again? Once unFeatured, it can't become Featured again unless you edit it to send it back through QAP, so it will sit there unFeatured forever.

...and it's now been unpublished as it is deemed "overly promotional"!

I guess that means all my "About the Artist" will be heading for pastures new in the near future

Mind you I'm hardly going to be alone. Many of those successful on Squidoo with sites which were NOT at any time deemed "overly promotional" seem to have come to the conclusion that it's time to start moving content to new sites - not least because the traffic is so appalling on HubPages.

Mind you the traffic on HubPages might be appalling because it has a distinct tendency to eliminate sites that used to generate traffic and have been very popular over a number of years.

I wish they would change the name of that rule because it only confuses people. "Overly Promotional" relates almost exclusively to links: usually it means you have more than two links to the same domain, and that should generate a warning at the top of the page.

I took a look at one of your other "about the artist" Hubs and noticed numerous links all going to the Tate Gallery, and more than two to the British Museum. That's against the rules so if you edit that Hub, it will fail QAP.

Some sites (e.g. photo sites) are whitelisted but it's a very short list. Since not many Hubbers write about art, I think it's unlikely they've had a request to whitelist the Tate. It might be worth an email to team@hubpages to ask if they would consider adding the Tate, British Museum etc.

Traffic is appalling because HubPages got hammered by the recent Panda. You only have to look at the Quantcast figures to see that - and Paul Edmonson has said that for the first time, this Panda affected almost every sub-domain.

Marisa - it did use to have that warning - and I sorted it and cleared the links identified in the warning.

To be honest, I'm not impressed with the "overly promotional" rules. They apply the same rules whether the hub has 500 words or 7,500 words. I've been writing long blog posts which the rules would deem "overly promotional" for years i.e. more than two links to the same domain (such as major art museums) - and my blog gets more traffic in a day than all my hubs get in a week. I rather think that means Google doesn't give a stuff about HubPages rules and instead prefers to send traffic to people who are experts in their area - as evidenced by my blog traffic which hasn't been affected at all by the Panda update

Anyway, the bottom line for me is since the HubPages model does not recognise high quality sites that are relevant to a topic - and hence does not fit my content - I shall start moving the content. I'm not going to downgrade my content to fit in with HubPages notion of what a quality page is re. links.

In my view Panda has affected HubPages significantly because it imported and now displays a lot of low quality lenses from squidoo which were NOT originally featured on Squidoo. How weird is that? (I've explained why this happened in another post and won't do so again - bottom line a huge number of featured lenses disappeared from Squidoo prior to the transfer) That can't be good for the site.

In the meantime very many former lensmasters are very disillusioned with HubPages and are or will be moving content - and I'm one of them.

Thanks you for drawing my attention to this. I have only once had a Hub unfeatured for content, but it was before HubPro and I only added some content in it was featured again, but know I realize there is a new threat looming!

I had the same concerns...thanks for sharing your question. Since I had no clue what HubPro was (perhaps I deleted that email by mistake) I went looking for an explanation. I found this and figured I'd share it.

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